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From the Ted Talk by Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers

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The first thing I want to say, and this is straight from "Wonders of the salor System," is that our exploration of the solar system and the usnierve has shown us that it is indescribably beautiful. This is a picture that actually was sent back by the Cassini space probe around starun, after we'd finished filming "Wonders of the Solar sytesm." So it isn't in the series. It's of the moon Enceladus. So that big sweeping, white sphere in the corner is Saturn, which is actually in the background of the picture. And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus, which is about as big as the British Isles. It's about 500 krteeoilms in diameter. So, tiny moon. What's fascinating and btuiuaefl ... this an unprocessed picture, by the way, I should say, it's black and white, straight from Saturnian orbit.

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The first thing I want to say, and this is straight from "Wonders of the _____ System," is that our exploration of the solar system and the ________ has shown us that it is indescribably beautiful. This is a picture that actually was sent back by the Cassini space probe around ______, after we'd finished filming "Wonders of the Solar ______." So it isn't in the series. It's of the moon Enceladus. So that big sweeping, white sphere in the corner is Saturn, which is actually in the background of the picture. And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus, which is about as big as the British Isles. It's about 500 __________ in diameter. So, tiny moon. What's fascinating and _________ ... this an unprocessed picture, by the way, I should say, it's black and white, straight from Saturnian orbit.

Solution

  1. beautiful
  2. universe
  3. saturn
  4. system
  5. solar
  6. kilometers

Original Text

The first thing I want to say, and this is straight from "Wonders of the Solar System," is that our exploration of the solar system and the universe has shown us that it is indescribably beautiful. This is a picture that actually was sent back by the Cassini space probe around Saturn, after we'd finished filming "Wonders of the Solar System." So it isn't in the series. It's of the moon Enceladus. So that big sweeping, white sphere in the corner is Saturn, which is actually in the background of the picture. And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus, which is about as big as the British Isles. It's about 500 kilometers in diameter. So, tiny moon. What's fascinating and beautiful ... this an unprocessed picture, by the way, I should say, it's black and white, straight from Saturnian orbit.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  35. white